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[FYI] Unique ID is built into WinXP final build
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- Subject: [FYI] Unique ID is built into WinXP final build
- From: "Axel H Horns" <horns@ipjur.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 23:13:13 +0200
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/21307.html
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Unique ID is built into WinXP final build
By John Lettice
Posted: 28/08/2001 at 14:43 GMT
Microsoft has quietly slipped a Universally Unique ID (UUID) into the
ISO of build 2600 of Windows XP, thus giving itself the capability of
tracking code leaks back to whoever it was that leaked them.
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